Thank you and great response! Yes, I agree with everything you mentioned. The anxiety is, at least I think, more prevelant during domain-specific triggers, such as: * "Stuttering is likely to occur when I do a presentation" (anticipatory anxiety for a specific situation) * "Stuttering is likely to occur on my name" Do you agree that such situations can evoke high anxiety? Now, if we compare it to domain-general triggers, such as: * "Stuttering can also occur on all words, because I'm a person who stutters so it makes sense" (labeling as PWS; perceiving disfluencies as a disorder; some even encourage "stuttering proudly" in this category) As you I think may have noticed, the latter is likely not so much anxiety-inducing compared to specific feared words (or situations). I think people who stutter, on this forum, often view stuttering more positive than it actually is.. I think this is where most domain-general triggers come from.. I'm referring to the more positive or neutral feelings/thoughts. And because PWS tend to mostly blame the negative triggers for their inhibition problems (and basal ganglia dysfunction), they overlook the other associations through classical conditioning. Hence this post. Speech therapies and researchers, and most PWS tend to completely overlook the domain-general triggers, is my conclusion, and thus, I think it becomes harder to unlearn such classical [conditioning](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/196mdrr/the_role_of_classicaloperant_conditioning_in/).